News

Letters to the Editor: Faith in schools divides

WHO exactly is dictating education policy in North Lanarkshire? The council’s education department? The Scottish executive? No, it would appear to be Bishop Devine (News, last week). Having bowed to the Bishop’s demands for separate entrances, staff rooms and toilets for Catholics, presumably North Lanarkshire council will, in the interests of fairness, provide separate doors for other groups — Hindus, Muslims, Baptists, Free Presbyterians, Sikhs etc — with a main door for the majority with no interest in organised religion.

What North Lanarkshire and the rest of Scotland should have is a system that educates children so they can make their own choices about which doors to enter. It’s time for the Scottish executive to act to end religious segregation in schools.

Keith ChartersPollokshields, Glasgow

HOME GROWN: What would I, as a Catholic, have learnt in my 13 years of Catholic education that I would have missed out on in a